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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1965
Page
4
Central and Southern Berkshire County residents filed 1,724 unemployment claims last week, up from 1,696 two weeks earlier while 17 job openings were filled. Comparisons show 2,562 claims the prior year. Washington inputs note peak peacetime savings and SEC wealth figures.
Gordon H. Reynolds of 202 Eleanor Road chairs Berkshire County for a $100 a plate dinner to benefit Lt. Gov. Elliott Richardson on June 4 at the new Memorial Auditorium in Boston. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon will speak. John J. Buckley of Walpole is dinner chairman. event aims to raise $100,000 to $120,000 to reduce the lieutenant governor's 1964 campaign debt.
Former Pittsfield mayor and ex-chairman of the state Commission on Corporations and Taxation, Robert T. Capeless of Newton Highlands, will headline the Democratic City Committee forum at 7:30 PM Saturday in the Highland Restaurant hall. He will discuss taxation and Gov Volpe's proposed sales tax, noting the regressive effects of property taxes while criticizing some sales tax provisions. Capeless will be introduced by attorney Abraham W. Chesney, Ward 6 chairman.
Nomination of officers of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars will be held Wednesday evening starting at 7 30 at the post home on Linden Street. Post elections will be on Sunday April 25 from 2 00 p m. After the regular post session the St John N Truden Club Inc will nominate and elect three directors to replace three who have ended their terms.
Police logged multiple vandalism incidents over the weekend including smashed windows at Crane School a shattered window at 192 Pomeroy Ave and a porch window hit at 1201 West Housatonic St Ronald F Griffin of Dalton reported a rock through his car windshield in Notre Dame Church lot. Two cars driven by Philip Alderman of 22 Worthington St and Donald Tetreault of 35 Dan ford Ave collided at Linden and Seymour streets with no injuries. Frederick M Kerr of Dalton said a young boy Gary Daniells of 427 Daniels Ave ran into his car on Merrill Road near Coltsville corners. Daniells was treated at St Luke's Hospital for a knee cut.
The former mayor, now a lawyer with Thomas Macken Joyce, will stay with his parents, former Representative and Mrs. Matthew J. Capeless, at 50 Charles Street, over the weekend.
A long local hospital notice lists named patients from multiple towns and homes, with several undergoing operations. It includes Eva Pignone, Richard Sparks, Nicholas Fusco, Annie Seamon, Emma Culliton, Ellen Carroll, and many others, across St Luke's Hillcrest Pittsfield General and Wentworth-Douglas Hospital in Dover.
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